Kate Law

Dr. Kate Law is currently writing a social history of Depo-Provera during apartheid, and is Assistant Professor/Nottingham Research Fellow, at The University of Nottingham, UK. You can find her on Twitter. Kate wishes to thanks Marion Stevens, Tlaleng Mofokeng, and the editors of Nursing Clio for their help in preparing this piece.

A new wave of frenetic reproductive puritanism appears to be sweeping the globe. From Trump’s global gag, which has widely been heralded as a “devastating blow for women’s rights,” to the rollback of access to legal abortion in countries such as Chile, reproductive politics are defining administrative agendas. But in lamenting the state of current… Read more →